Beyond Gender and the Psychology of Ideological Certainty
The most valuable question raised by Stella O’Malley’s conversation with Ian Cox on Beyond Gender concerns what happens when psychotherapy becomes an instrument of collective […]
Depth Psychology
When Kindness Becomes a Creed – Gender-Identity Policy, Virtue Signalling and Institutional Authority
Kindness begins with an encounter between imperfect people. It requires attentiveness to another person’s vulnerability, but also some awareness of one’s own partial understanding, mixed […]
Beyond Gender, Globalism and the Collective Psyche – A Jungian Response to Emmet Connor
The latest episode of Beyond Gender, hosted by Stella O’Malley and featuring Emmet Connor, author of The Red Pandemic, raises a worthwhile question but arrives […]
Beyond Contagion – Monomania, Mythic Quest and the Symbolic Life of the Psyche
The conversation between Stella O’Malley, Mia Hughes and Deanne Jade is serious in both subject and intention. It addresses anorexia nervosa, gender dysphoria, self-harm, obsessive […]
The Severed Head – Gender Identity, Projection and the Return of Violent Symbolism
Public arguments about sex and gender are generally presented as disputes over rights, definitions, medical evidence, institutional policy and personal identity. These matters are important, […]
Beyond Gender – Classification, Experience and the Symbolic Life of Identity
The Beyond Gender episode on the classification of gender identity opens up a more difficult question than whether the phrase “transgender child” is true or […]
What Are We Afraid Of? Jung, Culture, and the Symbolic Life of Fear
Much of contemporary Western culture seems saturated with fear, yet public discussion rarely asks the most direct question: what are we actually afraid of? We […]
The Severed Head: Symbolism, Identity, and the Search for Wholeness
There are moments in public life when political disputes seem to draw upon a deeper reservoir of images and symbols than the immediate arguments might […]
Protectors, Promoters, and the Psychology of Social Balance
But protection and security are only valuable when not excessively cramping to our existence: and in the same way the superiority of consciousness is desirable […]
Beyond Ideology – Idealisation, Empathy, and the Collective Psyche in the Digital Age
The recent Beyond Gender conversation with Gurwinder Bhogal is ostensibly about social media, attention, addiction, and political contagion. Yet beneath the immediate discussion lies a […]